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en-usPenn State University Relationsnews@psu.edu (Penn State News)Speed matters for ice-shelf breakinghttp://news.psu.edu/story/181398/2008/11/27/speed-matters-ice-shelf-breaking
It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn State researchers. "To predict the future of the ice sheet and to understand the past, we have to put the information into a computer," says Richard B. Alley, the Evan Pugh professor of geosciences. "The models we have do not currently have any way to figure out where the big ice sheets end and where the ice calves off to form icebergs."
http://news.psu.edu/story/181398/2008/11/27/speed-matters-ice-shelf-breakingThu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00 -0500Penn State News - ice shelf